. The history of Methodism. t was to the stentorian John King that Wesley addressedthe letter so characteristic of Ids parental tone toward hishelpers: .Scream no more, at the peril of your soul. God 58 American Methodism now warns you by me, whom he has set over you. Speak asearnestly as you can, but clo not scream. Speak with all yourheart, but with a moderate voice. It was said of our Lord, He shall not cry; the word properly means, he shall notscream. Herein be a follower of me as I am of Christ. Ioften speak loud, often vehemently, but I never scream. Inever strain myself; I dare not; I k
. The history of Methodism. t was to the stentorian John King that Wesley addressedthe letter so characteristic of Ids parental tone toward hishelpers: .Scream no more, at the peril of your soul. God 58 American Methodism now warns you by me, whom he has set over you. Speak asearnestly as you can, but clo not scream. Speak with all yourheart, but with a moderate voice. It was said of our Lord, He shall not cry; the word properly means, he shall notscream. Herein be a follower of me as I am of Christ. Ioften speak loud, often vehemently, but I never scream. Inever strain myself; I dare not; I know it would be a sinagainst God and my own soul. The latter part of the epistleis interesting in the light of Kings rejection of Pilmoorsauthority: O John, pray for an advisable and teachable nature you are very far from it; you are stubborn andheadstrong. Your last letter was written in a very wrongspirit. If you cannot take advice from others, surely youmight take it from Your affectionate brother, John CHAPTER VI Pioneering New Jersey and Delaware.—First Societies in Baltimore.—Workand Workers in Virginia.—Pilmoors Southern Excursion.—Devereux Jarratt.—A Friendly Clergyman. THE missionaries who disembarked at New York orPhiladelphia must needs go through New Jersey,and that vState early and frequently enjoyed theirministrations. Webb was probably the first to preach Metho-dist doctrine there, on his way from New York to the Quakercity. Boardman found an audience at Trenton on his firstjourney to New York, in 1769. The next year Pilmoormakes note of preaching at Birdington (Bordentown) andBurlington, at Gloucester and Trenton. Webb formed asociety in Burlington in December, 1770, with Joseph Toyas its leader. Toy soon remo\Ted to Trenton, and led aclass there; he was afterward a successful itinerant the same time Edward Evans, the Methodist, went tominister to the society in Greenwich Chapel, near Clarksboro,New Jersev. These were
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